Accreditation OverviewWhat are the requirements of ACS accreditation? Philosophical requirements: Evidence of a clear understanding of the nature and purpose of a classical education and an incorporation of that understanding in the school’s operating documents and public statements Academic requirements: A clearly articulated statement of the school’s academic goals at every level and a clear process of ensuring the achieving those goals Curricular requirements: Full or partial implementation of the Latin-centered Classical Core Program Methodological requirements: Demonstration of an understanding of the importance of traditional, teacher-directed instruction in the classroom and a process by which those methodologies are communicated to school staff Assessment requirements: Demonstration of the value-added benefit of the school’s academic program through standardized test scores and compliance with ACS’s regular process of reporting test scores Doctrinal requirements: A doctrinal statement consisting of the Nicene Creed or a statement of belief consistent with the Nicene Creed.[1] Other Information Required from Schools: A copy of current school bylaws (for existing schools only) List of staff and faculty which includes grades and subjects taught and level of education List of books and resources used in current curriculum A statement of faith consisting of or consistent with the Nicene Creed and verification…

The Greatest Book by the Greatest Thinker of the Twentieth Century, on His Birthday

Today is G. K. Chesterton’s birthday. He was born on this date in 1874 and died in 1936. He wrote over two hundred books–novels, essays, and poetry. He even, at the behest of his friend, the playwright George Bernard Shaw, wrote several plays. His writings were featured in numerous British newspapers and journals, and he wrote a weekly column for the Illustrated London News from 1904 to 1936, with one interruption for several months in 1915, after his brother Cecil was killed in the “Great War.”

His popularity is said to have suffered after his death because he never wrote just one masterpiece. In fact, he wrote about a dozen, but none was more deserving of that name than his book Orthodoxy.

Orthodoxy is a book of Christian apologetics, written in 1908 after a widely read public debate in the newspapers between Chesterton and Robert Blatchford, the editor of the Clarion newspaper over the truth of Christianity.

In the book, he argues that all modern philosophies have the characteristics of insanity. Each is an isolated fragment of Christianity, unbalanced and exaggerated as a result of being disconnected from the larger Christian worldview. Christianity is the only whole and balanced view of the world–the only view that fully makes sense of reality in all its complexity.

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